bookrebus Chapter 566: Bloody Battle at Nianzhuang (4)
Chapter 566: Bloody Battle at Nianzhuang (4)
Every round of shelling by the 1st Battle Group's assault artillery vehicles would draw applause from the Huaye officers and soldiers watching the battle!
After about half an hour of shelling,
Tang Junping, the commander of the 1st Armored Regiment in charge of battlefield command, shouted into the microphone,
"keep going!"
Assault guns and armored vehicles drove towards Wuzhuang Village.
On Liu Jin's side, he finally received the order for the entire company to charge. The soldiers raised their rifles with bayonets and rushed forward behind the armored vehicles!
This time, thanks to the clearing by the armored units in front, the enemy's firepower was greatly weakened. Occasionally, there were some stray bullets flying around. Liu Jin and his men ran hard for seven or eight minutes and finally crossed this open area. Only three soldiers in the entire company were killed!
When Liu Jin ran to the entrance of the village, he saw a Type 3 assault gun parked in front of him, firing fiercely at the village. The assault gun was covered with bullet holes.
Liu Jin couldn't help but sigh, this tank is a tank, it's really tough!
The village was filled with smoke and dust. It was almost impossible to see anything. All I could hear was the sound of gunfire.
An armored vehicle was parked next to the assault gun, and the twin rapid-fire guns on the vehicle were firing randomly at the village.
Several soldiers jumped off the armored vehicle, and the leader shouted to Liu Jin,
"Now it's up to us infantrymen, let's charge together!"
Liu Jin immediately made a gesture, and the infantry of both sides rushed towards the village together!
Tang Junping ordered that the tanks could only be parked outside the village. Several experiences of street fighting taught him a bloody lesson. Once the tanks entered the village, they could only passively take the beating. Now the infantry had too many anti-tank weapons, and the closer the distance, the greater the destructive power!
However, for infantrymen like Liu Jin, entering the street fighting stage, this is their favorite fighting style.
Zhang Wei carried a backpack with six grenades in it. He also put two grenades in his pockets, for a total of eight grenades.
More than half of the houses in the village had been destroyed, and the ground was littered with broken bricks, rubble, and body parts.
Many bodies of Kuomintang soldiers were lying together, with red blood stains on their mouths and noses!
The soldiers jumped to a house, and Zhang Wei saw a soldier from the East China Field Army nearby fired a rocket at the gate. With a bang, the wooden door was blown to pieces!
A soldier from the East Field Army made a grenade throwing gesture. Zhang Wei quickly grabbed two grenades and threw them directly into the house. There were two loud bangs, and screams came from the house, "No more fighting, no more fighting, we surrender!"
At the entrance, several soldiers pointed their submachine guns at the door of the house. After a while, two Kuomintang soldiers came out, supporting each other. One of them had blood on his leg, and he was obviously injured!
More and more Chiang Kai-shek prisoners were taken out of the village, and the resistance of the entire village gradually stopped.
Liu Jin took out a cigarette and handed it to a Dongye officer who was in command beside him, and said enviously,
"Comrade, your equipment is really good!"
"Haha, we built them all ourselves. The Northeast has been completely liberated!" said the officer proudly!
"I heard about it, so you can come and help!"
The two of them took advantage of their free time to smoke and chat for a while.
Suddenly there was the sound of gunfire in the air.
The soldiers in the village looked up and saw that more than 10 planes of Chiang Kai-shek’s army had appeared in the sky and were engaged in a fierce battle with three planes of our army!
Half of these 10+ planes were B24 bombers! They probably received a telegram from the defenders asking for help and flew over to help bomb the attacking Huaye troops on the ground!
Our three aircraft, including a reconnaissance plane and two fighter planes, were hovering above 4000 meters in the air to avoid ground anti-aircraft fire. When the two jet fighters saw Chiang Kai-shek's aircraft group, they were not afraid at all and rushed towards them!
In the first round of fighting between the two sides, two P51s of Chiang Kai-shek’s army fell down with black smoke, while our army’s reconnaissance plane knew it was no match and was accelerating away from the battlefield!
Cheers immediately erupted from the ground.
Afterwards, three P51s of Chiang's army followed the fleeing reconnaissance plane and chased it all the way. Finally, they shot down the reconnaissance plane with their speed and firepower advantage.
The pilot of the reconnaissance plane, Fan Guoping, was an experienced pilot. He pulled the joystick decisively, trying to control the plane, but it was all in vain. The plane's engine was damaged and flamed out, and the wings were riddled with holes.
He tried to use the microphone to call the scout Li Ming in the back seat, but got no response. Fan Guoping turned his head and saw that Li Ming had his head hung down, and his flight suit was stained with blood!
Fan Guoping knew that the plane could not be saved. He struggled to climb out of the cockpit, then jumped out of the plane. Finally, the parachute slowly opened. Fan Guoping was floating in the air, but his heart was extremely heavy.
He looked around and found that he was floating in the direction of the enemy's position. Fan Guoping thought to himself that it was not good. He desperately pulled the rope of the parachute to try to change direction, but the wind was too strong and his efforts were useless.
Soon, Fan Guoping fell into the enemy's position. As soon as he landed, he was surrounded by a group of Kuomintang soldiers. The soldiers held their guns and shouted at him. The enemy soldiers quickly surrounded him and pointed their guns at him. Fan Guoping's face was full of despair and fear, and beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.
Meanwhile, two jet fighters climbed to an altitude of more than 7000 meters, circled to the side and rear and attacked the enemy bomber group, and shot down a B24 bomber each again.
At this moment, the enemy bombers panicked and threw their bombs randomly, not caring whether they could hit the target or not, and flew away quickly under the cover of fighter planes!
The two jets of the 1st Air Attack Group did not chase after them, but flew straight back to Jinan Airport. This is a defect of ME262. Its fuel consumption is too high, its range is relatively short, and its endurance time in the air cannot exceed one and a half hours!
The entire air battle lasted only about twenty minutes.
On the ground, the soldiers cheered. After all, the enemy's bombers had been driven away, and the bombs dropped in haste had no accuracy at all, with most of them falling in the wilderness!
Liu Jin lay on the roof of a house, observing the movements in front of him.
Looking from Wuzhuang where he was, there was a small village in the northeast and northwest. The two villages were only 500 meters apart and about two kilometers away from Wuzhuang. From the map, one was called Houlaozhuang and the other was called Sunqiao!
This means that the next offensive, frontal assault may encounter crossfire from the enemy!
Liu Jin's brows were furrowed, and his heart was extremely heavy. This was just to clear the enemy's outer positions. It seemed that the battles ahead would be tough ones!